Abstract:The words we use matter, and our terminology is of great importance for the kind of scholarship we produce, and the audiences to which our work is legible. But the words themselves are more the means than the end of this analytical work. Each of the scholars writing in this issue of JER explains the importance of their assigned terms within a broader set of methodological and theoretical questions and framings, and so these terms act as a kind of shorthand for interdisciplinary and community-engaged approaches that are bringing new questions and perspectives to early American studies.
{"title":"Reconsidering Theory and Accountability in Early American Studies","authors":"E. Ellis","doi":"10.1353/jer.2023.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2023.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The words we use matter, and our terminology is of great importance for the kind of scholarship we produce, and the audiences to which our work is legible. But the words themselves are more the means than the end of this analytical work. Each of the scholars writing in this issue of JER explains the importance of their assigned terms within a broader set of methodological and theoretical questions and framings, and so these terms act as a kind of shorthand for interdisciplinary and community-engaged approaches that are bringing new questions and perspectives to early American studies.","PeriodicalId":45213,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42209953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The word disability originated as a legal, rather than a medical, term where it was used to limit individuals' access to rights. These linguistic roots have cast a long shadow over the legal and political lives of disabled people. Nevertheless, the word disability originally described more situational and malleable states than fixed conditions, and it was not until the antebellum era that disability began to be associated more commonly with bodily and mental conditions. When writing about disability history, scholars should keep in mind the shifting nature of the term disability and evolving understandings of the concept of disability during the period as well as the identity preferences and self-understanding of the groups whose histories they study. Cultural and epistemological humility as well as openness to change and correction remain essential.
{"title":"Disability","authors":"Sari Altschuler","doi":"10.1353/jer.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The word disability originated as a legal, rather than a medical, term where it was used to limit individuals' access to rights. These linguistic roots have cast a long shadow over the legal and political lives of disabled people. Nevertheless, the word disability originally described more situational and malleable states than fixed conditions, and it was not until the antebellum era that disability began to be associated more commonly with bodily and mental conditions. When writing about disability history, scholars should keep in mind the shifting nature of the term disability and evolving understandings of the concept of disability during the period as well as the identity preferences and self-understanding of the groups whose histories they study. Cultural and epistemological humility as well as openness to change and correction remain essential.","PeriodicalId":45213,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43472620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay examines how localities shaped federal policy and influenced foreign affairs in the early nineteenth century. By examining the local, national, and international response to the accidental killing of John Pierce on the Leander by British warships off the coast of New York in 1806, this piece argues for the importance of studying national issues, like national sovereignty, in local contexts. Building off of recent political and diplomatic histories that have recentered individuals and cultural politics in the study of foreign affairs, this essay traces how the local response to Pierce's death created a national outcry, directly affected on-going negotiations with the British empire, and laid the groundwork for future protests regarding national sovereignty. By expanding more traditional ideas of diplomacy to include local political leaders and the cultural politics of people in the street, this essay seeks to reinvigorate the diplomatic history of the early republic. The aftermath of the Leander affair demonstrates how diplomatic negotiations happened on a local, state, national, and international level between formal and informal political actors and how local issues helped define national priorities, create a national identity, and shape understandings of national sovereignty.
{"title":"Mourning a Murder: The Death of John Pierce, Local Politics, and British-American Relations","authors":"Heather Walser","doi":"10.1353/jer.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines how localities shaped federal policy and influenced foreign affairs in the early nineteenth century. By examining the local, national, and international response to the accidental killing of John Pierce on the Leander by British warships off the coast of New York in 1806, this piece argues for the importance of studying national issues, like national sovereignty, in local contexts. Building off of recent political and diplomatic histories that have recentered individuals and cultural politics in the study of foreign affairs, this essay traces how the local response to Pierce's death created a national outcry, directly affected on-going negotiations with the British empire, and laid the groundwork for future protests regarding national sovereignty. By expanding more traditional ideas of diplomacy to include local political leaders and the cultural politics of people in the street, this essay seeks to reinvigorate the diplomatic history of the early republic. The aftermath of the Leander affair demonstrates how diplomatic negotiations happened on a local, state, national, and international level between formal and informal political actors and how local issues helped define national priorities, create a national identity, and shape understandings of national sovereignty.","PeriodicalId":45213,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44247529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minds and Hearts: The Story of James Otis, Jr. and Mercy Otis Warren by Jeffrey H. Hacker (review)","authors":"Rachel Tamar Van","doi":"10.1353/jer.2023.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2023.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45213,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41619779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the US Constitution by Max M. Edling (review)","authors":"Donald F. Johnson","doi":"10.1353/jer.2023.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2023.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45213,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47353523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay encourages historians to employ the term white when writing about white people, a seemingly simple practice but one rarely employed. White is very often an absent modifier, and when we do not name it, we omit the power that racial thinking and racist actions provided to white people. In so doing, we unthinkingly replicate and give support to racist power structures. By reflecting on the simultaneous precarity and power of whiteness in the past, we can see how the history of the term has shaped our contemporary writing and how we might improve it.
{"title":"White/white and/or the Absence of the Modifier","authors":"W. Stewart","doi":"10.1353/jer.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay encourages historians to employ the term white when writing about white people, a seemingly simple practice but one rarely employed. White is very often an absent modifier, and when we do not name it, we omit the power that racial thinking and racist actions provided to white people. In so doing, we unthinkingly replicate and give support to racist power structures. By reflecting on the simultaneous precarity and power of whiteness in the past, we can see how the history of the term has shaped our contemporary writing and how we might improve it.","PeriodicalId":45213,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46672631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An African American Dilemma: A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North by Zöe Burkholder (review)","authors":"Campbell F. Scribner","doi":"10.1353/jer.2023.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2023.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45213,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43659722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ireland and America: Empire, Revolution, and Sovereignty ed. by Patrick Griffin and Francis D. Cogliano (review)","authors":"N. Martin","doi":"10.1353/jer.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45213,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45274759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution by Jeffers Lennox (review)","authors":"M. Lender","doi":"10.1353/jer.2023.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2023.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45213,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66418516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nora Slonimsky, Jessica Choppin Roney, Andrew Shankman
The words we use matter, yet they undergo constant change in ways sometimes subtle, sometimes dramatic. There is power in naming, or misnaming, and in who gets to decide. Ideally, this Critical Engagements forum will contribute to our collective, conscious, and rigorous interrogation of the terms we use and why we use them.
{"title":"Introduction: \"What's in a Name?\"","authors":"Nora Slonimsky, Jessica Choppin Roney, Andrew Shankman","doi":"10.1353/jer.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"The words we use matter, yet they undergo constant change in ways sometimes subtle, sometimes dramatic. There is power in naming, or misnaming, and in who gets to decide. Ideally, this Critical Engagements forum will contribute to our collective, conscious, and rigorous interrogation of the terms we use and why we use them.","PeriodicalId":45213,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135026370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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